Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?
You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won’t show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.
Wow, a lot of variation in this thread!
I get all my data to my server, then from there I have borgmatic do incremental backups to a backup drive on the same machine (nightly cronjob).
From there I use Rclone to get the encrypted borg backup to Backblaze B2 for cloud storage.
So for 3 2 1, my 3 copies are the original, the local backup, and the cloud backup.
My 2 media are local hard drives and cloud storage (I think it’s fair to consider this a different kind of media).
And my 1 offsite is the cloud backup.
Now I’m dumb and have a fear of screwing something up so I have also started burning M-Discs of my critical data (everything except TV/movie/music stuff I can redownload). Though this was a lot more expensive than I was expecting, because of aforementioned me being dumb I already screwed up two discs (they are write once). I’m also doing two copies of each disc.
Also I have photos/home videos additionally stored in ente, they are super important to me and I wanted a separated copy someone else is looking after.
Yeah this isn’t how I’ve used Nextcloud. I let Nextcloud manage the storage on the same server that Nextcloud is installed on. When accessed on the same network the performance of Nextcloud is miles better than the Onedrive website, which I think is a fair way to judge. It is on a decently beefy server though.
Many people had issues with Nextcloud installs because there were extra steps to get the caching and performance tweaking right. The AIO container made this part much easier by handling it for you, but just in general Nextcloud does need a bit of grunt. I think the recommendation if enabling all components is that you have 5GB RAM and 4 CPU minimum (when talking about VPS - I have it installed locally on an old gaming machine, along with other stuff).
If the AIO install is slow, then I’d guess something like the server is not powerful enough, the network is not fast enough, or the network drive access is causing lag.
Where did you read that?
I’d say it’s opinionated. You run it and you can use the provided settings but you don’t get a lot of opportunity to set things up differently.
But it is a lot easier than it used to be to stand up a Nextcloud instance that works without issue.
You can also export and import data and accounts so it’s pretty low risk to just give it a go.
I never had problems before but if you haven’t tried the All In One Install (the officially recommended way to install), then give that a go. You don’t have to worry about caching and databases and things. It all runs on docker.
And just in case, the AIO container creates new docker containers so if you need to provision docker network access for a reverse proxy then make sure you’ve got it on the right container.
Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
What makes you say they are shorter life span? The 25GB and 100GB both have the same “several hundred years” claim.
Thanks, I missed that post! Looks like the comment section would have answered a lot of my question.
In the end I have pulled the trigger and bought an M-Disc capable burner and a stack of M-Discs, so I’m gonna give that a go and see how it works out.
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Sweet, thanks, I think that’s a good plan. I am thinking duplicate disks, one on site one off site. I do have a cloud backup, but if I die in a house fire then having the offsite disks is a much better solution than the random B2 bucket.
Thanks for the help 🙂
Seems the only M-Disc capable writer I can find locally is a portable USB-C connecting one, so if I go with it I’ll probably just store it with the discs. In theory M-Disc is supposed to be resistant to the kinds of things that destroy regular CDs, but making a second copy does sound like a good idea. I could even store the second copy somewhere else (another house) to protect against fire. I have cloud backup but you never know what’s going to happen over 50 years. Or if I die in the fire and no one knows I have the cloud backup.
Like this? https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/DVWVER4618789/Verbatim-43888-External-Slim-Bluray-Writer-Ultra-H
That’s NZD by the way, conversion rates are terrible at the moment so about halve it for USD, seems in the price range you said.
The idea is that I’d swap out drives every 5 years or so. If USB A is no longer in use I’d swap out at that point for something newer. Plus the drives would be powered on every year for the update, it’s just the point that I stop doing it (too old/hit by bus/etc) that the clock would start ticking.
I do like the M-Disc idea though. Probably a similar price, and more in line with the shelf-stable solution I was looking for.
Everyone is saying to avoid flash memory. It doesn’t store well.
Another suggestion given is M-Disc, which might be a better option because then anyone should be able to throw it in a CD drive and load it without having to worry about the format of the drive and things like that. And even if CDs are not that common anymore, I think people will still know what they are and be able to find a way to load it even in 50 years. Like if someone found a cassette tape today (I know they were common much less than 50 years ago, but it’s hard to find an example since records came back into fashion). Plus M-Discs are designed for long term storage, so I could worry less about bitrot and files getting corrupt etc. They are write once so I’m not going to write over existing content.
Yeah it’s an interesting thought. They seem to come up to 100GB capacity, but the wikipedia page claims (with a [dubious] qualifier) that you need some sort of special higher power burning device to write to M-Disc.
I don’t have an optical drive at the moment. Would I just pick any rated for BDXL?
Yeah since then I’ve been convinced I need two drives mirrored under zfs, which should handle that scenario.
You are the first person who has recommended SSD for cold storage. Everyone else (including what I’ve googled) says HDD for cold storage, just spin up every year or two and they will be fine. Can you point me at further reading?
Don’t worry, I’ll SMART check the drives each year as I update as required.
As for types of drives dying out soon, I can reassess the situation every 5 years when I do drive replacement. I would be confident 2.5" drives will still be readable in 5 years.
I have automated backups including to cloud, but I want a separated manual system that cannot get erased if I mess something up (accidentally sync a delete, lose encryption key, forget to pay cloud bill). I have 3 2 1 but it’s all automated and backups are eventually replaced, if it’s not a critical failure I won’t necessarily know I’ve lost something.
Basically, I specifically want cold storage, and not cloud. I will only add, not delete from it. And I don’t want it encrypted.
Based on other conversations I’m planning on using duel disks mirrored, zfs, annual updates and disk checks with disks rotated out every 5 years (unless failing/failed). Handling the need for layman retrival of data by including instructions with the hard drives.
I’ve decided I should have a small number of physical prints, as extra redundancy. I’m thinking I’ll print 100 each year to store with the hard drive backup.
Only a single person on the instance needs to subscribe, then the instance with the community knows about it and will start pushing the content to that instance.
You’re on Lemmy.world, so it wouldn’t take long for someone to subscribe (if you’re the first person, just looking also pulls a handful of posts, but no further updates until someone subscribes).